Writing of a Dream

So… the title says it all. Friday I went in for my colonoscopy and they pumped me full of magic drugs to knock me on my figurative ass. I ended up sleeping all day on the couch. No big deal right? But when the movers moved the couch apparently they got something in my couch that has caused two people to have a horrid rash and lots of bug bites. I think they are chiggers but I am not entirely sure. I know they aren’t bed bugs thankfully. They might be spider bites. anyway so now I am sitting in a hospital again. thistime having to wait for extended periods of time while trying not to itch. Oh the joy.

However Kasey who is in town from texas is up here hanging with me at the hospital and ogre drove me up. The awesome Nat has also offered to come by and hang with me after my ER visit is finished. I do have to say the worst part of this whole situation is how much my face is bothering me and the sores on my legs. It is really obnoxious.

Gary and I hae to spend all day tomorrow cleaning up the old apartment. we went grocery shopping for the first time in almost two months yesterday and we spent 450 and unfortunately it was all needed. But tomorrow will come carpet cleaning and dusting and cleaning out the fireplace and moving the last of everything.

I am going to sign out for the moment more updates on adventures at the ER soon to come.

Well Yesterday afternoon/evening I got a call from the hospital where I am getting my probe performed, the Foundation Surgery Center of Oklahoma. The girl was nice but an airhead and asked “Would you like to pay for your procedure via check or credit card?” I asked how much it was and she quickly replies “One thousand Dollars.” Kiss my shiny ass a grand for me to go through an uncomfortable anal probe!!!!!!!!!! I’m not in a good mood. And I have insurance not to mention a flexible spending account. So I explain I get reimbursed for my medical procedures through my FSA and I need her to bill me so the insurance can pay their part and then I can request funds from my FSA and mail them a check.

Apparently this just will not do. I talk to management. They also say that this won’t work they need money before my probe. I am at this point a very unhappy camper. I ask to escalate it further and they said they will call me back. I head home and call the sister. She explains the ins and outs and upside down that is our current medical industry when it comes to insurance and coverage. She also tells me that I should give the doctors office a call tomorrow to find out what is really going on.

So I talk with Kristie the head assistant/nurse/whatever up at Dr. Kumar’s office and explain the situation. I feel much better now. After apologizing hand over fist she explained that apparently the Foundation Surgery Center of Oklahoma really likes to charge people first for everything. Even through most of Dr. Kumar’s patients have everything go through the insurance company and then pay her for the work that was done to make sure all of the numbers are correct. I was also informed if they call asking for more money to have them call over to Kristie and she will get them informed and taken care of. Happily I don’t have to deal with that now when I am nervous enough as it is about having a multiple foot long tube shoved up my ass with a camera on it. I keep imaging in my head of the Camera getting lodged and stuck and ending up with a real life scene from the book Choke.

Now my only major decision is to go liquid or pills. I think I am going to follow both Radar and Cathy’s advice and go the route of the liquid even through it tastes horrid. The last thing I want is to have issues and then have to have all the invasiveness repeated.

Yes my brain is currently taking me on a fuck me hard cruise. Oh the fun.

On another note I got a call from Radar last night. Gary and I are going up to his wedding next Friday but the way all of the timing is setting up I think Gary, Cathy and Bill are going to have to go up ahead of me so that Gary can get to the rehearsal dinner on time and I will just have to come up a few hours behind them by myself. *sarcasm* Which driving alone for four hours is always a joyous event. */sarcasm*

Gary also did an amazing job yesterday fixing my shower head in thmaster bathroom at our place. It was low enough that I couldn’t even stand under it and I’m short at 5′6″. Not to mention it sprays hard enough to kick the shit out of you and turn all of your skin red. But he went and picked up a new set of channel locks and changed out the shower head so I can have my favorite rain one back. Today he is tackling fixing the master toilet so the water will stop running when you flush it and removing all of the child safety locks from the Kitchen so I quit hurting myself on it. Yes I have managed to smash my fingers multiple times in the doors to the cabinets because of the stupid child safety locks.

Yeah I know odd header but that seems to be where my life is going. It has been a complete hell week with this movebut I should be used to that at this point.

The 14th after I got home from work was just a mad dash of packing and trying to get everything together before I literally fell over from exhaustion. Gary got home at midnight and was hurting because of his teeth issue and his body was in agony after his long shift at work. He helped the best he could but didn’t get much done on the packing front. I managed to get most of the house done excluding most of the kitchen and the random stuff in the closet. Gary and I kept going until 3am putting everything in boxes. It was a nightmare and I was reminded how much I truly hate to move.

The 15th only got worse. 2 Fella’s and a Big truck came by to move all of our stuff because Gary and I are in no condition to load everything ourselves. It would kill us and we both had to work the next day. Only problem is they went WAY over the estimated time frame and were slow as hell. It caused HUGE budget issues for this month. Initially I was planning on 2 hours move time +1 hour of drive time so $207. I mean we only have 652 square feet at the old place it shouldn’t take that long to load even if it is on the 3rd floor. Well that $207 ended up growing to $465 which is a significantly larger number than was initially anticipated.

The morning of the 15th the “kids” and me hopped into the truck to go to the groomers up in Edmond so they would be all nice and clean before moving into the new house. Apparently since the last time I took the dogs by puppy love brushing after a bath is no longer included in a standard grooming and it’s an additional $20 per dog. Yeah it really sucked since I was already paying $56 to have them bathed and their toenails clipped. So with them being all nice and washed they jumped in the truck and ended up COVERING my entire truck in loose flyaway puppy fur.

I spent most of the rest of the day on the 15th unpacking everything and realizing that my stackable washer and dryer won’t fit at the new place and so I have to go buy another set and I have no fridge. Yup I forgot that with the new place that it’s a BYOF which kinda sucks since well a fridge with a new w/d runs about $1000 for all four items together if not more.  But I’ll get back to that.

Friday the 16th was just a whirl as well. Getting everything done at work and then going home to continue unpacking and getting everything “just so”. I don’t know what it is about this go round of unpacking but I finally feel home. I don’t know if it is just the larger space. If it’s not climbing 3 flights of stairs. Maybe it’s being in a cozy environment with Gary. Perhaps it is being closer to our friends. I really don’t know but I finally feel comfortable and safe. Which is a definite step up in my opinion.

Saturday the AC went out. Now for anyone who knows me. I just realized i was spoiled growing up. I thought everyone went on vacation out of state every two years, got lots of presents at Christmas, and that there was no American family that didn’t have central heating and air. Yes I am/was sheltered and I am beginning to realize that now. However, I don’t deal well with the heat. At All. I am allergic to the sun and it hurts if I’m out for more than 15-20 minutes. Heat isn’t my friend either because I don’t know how to cope with it and it just shuts me down. SO with house temps easily reaching 85-90 degrees I was literally feeling as If I was going to die but no one could come out to fix anything until Monday. That was one of the most difficult weekends for me in a long time. But I made it through and still managed to get stuff unpacked and put away so cudos to me.

Ogre has moved in with us. Not sure If I had mentioned that or not. This was done for numerous reasons. He gets the internet, food, and a neat place to stay for $300 a month. This benefits Gary and I because our budget doesn’t really change at all even though our bills are going up $300 because the Ogre offsets this change. Also it goves me someone to talk to on the days Gary is at work and I get very very bored. Ogre is still keeping his place since he isn’t paying anything for it at the moment in Edmond so if something goes wrong and he needs to move out he can and if he wants some private time he has that as well.

Over Monday and Tuesday I got most of the house done I think I have maybe 5 more boxes a the house to unpack and then I am completely done. I’m slightly worried about getting everything done as quickly as possible simply because of the fact that (as the title suggests) there is something up with my ass. There has since birth I’ve just always been to much of a chicken to get it looked at so It is imperative to get as much done as possible before I have to drink the “fluid of flushing +10″ and empty my system completely. I already have a consultation with a surgeon set for June 4th to get some of it fixed I just hope that this solves everything forever. And no more ass issues.

I found craigslist.com is a lifesaver. It was going to cost us $1000+ to get a new fridge and a new washer and dryer but I found a slightly used w/d set and a Fridge that works wonderfully just needed to be cleaned both high end GE products for a total of $350 I was impressed with myself to say the least. So we now have a fridge that is alot nicer than the one were were going to be able to get ice dispenser and water on the door and all.

I was talking with Nat today and discovered she is happily with a nerd, finally, and is in 7th heaven! It’s always fun to hear that your friends are doing well. And I told her long ago there is no better man than a nerd. They know how to use their minds in more ways than one and creativity is always appreciated, be it in life in general or in the bedroom!

Well I’m going to call it there I should be updating more frequently once I’m not running around like a chicken with my head cut off.

I helped Ogre get a TB hard drive. The one he was going to buy was a 500GB that was $50 less expensive with really sad reviews. So I fronted him the difference and he is paying me back next week. He has to ship his comp in for repairs. Speaking of computers I have to start to pack all of mine up for the move. Gary and I are going to manually run the expensive hardware over for safety’s sake. I really need to take down the computer desk tomorrow night so that the movers can get it out fairly quickly. I’m hoping to have them in and out within the two hour window and it not run any longer.

Moving has been an absolute. Bitch tonight I have to go up to Edmond to help finish up the fence we are fixing/building hopefully a good chunk of it will be done. It really needs to be done before the move so that we can have the dogs at the house. There is so much stuff going on this and next week and with me having issues with my Bum it just hasn’t been fun. Tonight when I get done with the fence I’m going to pack the vast majority of the kitchen and the rest of the closet. I’m a bit tired as we speak because I haven’t been sleeping much.

Dogs have their sauna appointment set up for the morning of the 15th so that they will have nails trimmed and all excess hair removed from them so that they can be all clean and shiny for the new house and they don’t have to deal with mover drama which will be happening that morning as well.

Well my brain is toast I have more posted under the cut but it’s kinda gross and medical related so dont click if you don’t want to know.

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Well, today sucked. I ended up having to stay home from work because of my bum. Yes literally. I have had issues with my bum since birth really and I won’t go into it to spare the disgusting details but to say the least my bum was really hurting today and yesterday and hopefully everything will be wonderful tomorrow with no pain.

Since I was home I figured I would attempt to accomplish something and so I got to work on the packing shenanigans. I got about 10 boxes packed today mostly stuff in the living room and bathroom but it’s still a start. If i can manage to pack at least 5 boxes a day after this there should be no question/problem having everything packed by the night of the 14th. This moving go round I have everything planned from top to bottom. Down to the point I am keeping backpacks in certain rooms so that on the night of the 14th/morning of the 15th I can just throw the last few things in and put them in my truck and everything else is taken away by the movers.

I am so happy in a way I have had so many horrid moves. Because of this I already know everything that can go wrong and do whatever I can think of to prevent said issues. So far my list is as follows:

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Well since the 24th of this month has been a whirlwind, and even more than usual

Gary and I found an amazing place. It is a 1500sq ft duplex with a yard that is about 800 sq ft for the dogs. It’s $795 a month and has 3 bedrooms, 2.5 bathrooms, and a 2 car garage. The downstairs was designed for entertaining it’s the only impression you get off of the house. There is a huge entryway coat closet and the kitchen is big enough to fit Gary’s dining room table in it which has apparently sat 14 people at it before. Only problem is at the moment we have no chairs for the said table. That’s going to have to be something we work on though. The only downside on the kitchen is I don’t think there is a dishwasher and the counter-tops are yellow and I mean YELLOW like Big bird yellow. I was wanting to do a cow themed kitchen (almost everyone knows of my love for the cow) and I am wondering if I put enough black and white in it will faze out the yellow…..

The living room looks as if it’s about 20×40 ft… I mean it’s friggin huge…. and it has a neat corner fireplace with a mantle which I have been wanting for months now. It’s the ideal location to put a few of my little memorable items I have. Like my sister got me this awesome Buddha incense burner and a nifty Dragon statuary. I have a little Japanese Geisha doll from Japan from when my Papa was serving in WWII and a bottle of sand from the first time I went to the ocean in California. Just little trinkets every girl has that are her specials. I am so Happy i have a place to put them now. They are attractive and important to me and I have a mantle for them now. With the living room I also think I am going to be getting couch covers for my armchair and the couch eventually. Make them a nice tan color and get a throw pillow or two. This also makes Dogs + Couch cleaning MUCH easier. It will also go with the theme that I want to run with in my living room, Horses, not like photo’s but very flowing I have one painting called Zepa Lapa and I want another one similar to kinda flow with it.

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Yesterday had to be the best Tuesday in existence. I went to work, I accomplished a ton. Bob and I worked at the switch and we got a lot of things narrowed down on where the actual issue is in the provisioning of the system and the card interface. I left work at about 6:30 PM exhausted and went to FedEx to drop of 4 packages of devices we are shipping out to integration teams and vendors for testing. And i got home at about 7PM.

I started dinner an awesome setup of chicken breasts on rice and cream of chicken soup. So instead of using water to cook the rice you use the soup and it makes an amazing thick yummyness. Then you put the chicken on top of the uncooked rice soup mixture and bake it at 375 for 45 minutes. Gary doesn’t do green beans but usually you put french cut green beans in the rice mixture I made them on stove top and just mixed a can into my dinner. I’ll eat the other chicken breast tonight for dinner. We watched the new Bones episode on the DVR and the season finale of Canterbury’s Law. Both were awesome.

Then after informing all the people who kept texting him that he had been whisked away by a sex fiend and they needed to bugger off I had I think the most amazing sex of my life. I have never almost come to tears because of how amazing something felt until last night it was just a very OMG moment for me. I was truly amazed. There’s no other word for it. I mean I konked out so completely I forgot to take my cholesterol medication before bed, which I know is bad but I couldn’t help it. When I woke up this morning no pain I was still walking on air, It was wonderful. In combination with how amazing he is in bed… the fact that I really think I have given my heart to him makes me feel absolutely wonderful. Content is a new thing for me and I never ever want to loose it. The only thing that could improve my mood is if I get a phone call from Miaa, the woman who is renting the awesome house in the Village, saying bring me the check and the house is yours on the 1st.

Then at work today we finally discovered the problem in the air cards and with the provisioning. It’s unfortunate what we found but hopefully we can get it to work. We still have another way we can secure the network that we still have to test but if that goes through today all is well in the universe.

Tonight unfortunately I am home alone all night so not fun but there are worse things I have learned and not having a Gary at home any night of the week is definitely up there on the bad list. I really need to sit down and look at my bills and figure out what I can combine and Pay everything off My goal over the next two years is eliminate all of my debt (if possible) and fix my credit score. I really think If i get into a good place for a home with how good my life is going I really think that would be possible.

That’s all for the moment I’ll definitely keep updating I felt really guilty for missing most of last week and so daily posts are going to be the wave of the future me. I also am going to load some more poetry tonight. If you don’t like what I have posted so far you probably wont like this either so you know in advance.

Ok I feel guilty haven’t posted anything in a week but my brain is going to ooze out of my ear this weekend to recover from the mind bending loops it has been going through.

Monday 14th & Tuesday 15th

Ok Data cards still weren’t working but we made a ton of headway and I didn’t get home until 9:30 pm which kinda sucked. But Tuesday morning I came in and we got it all worked out (finally!) and authentication is even running properly. It took me breaking out the card of old, the merlin that took a month to provision, to prove that the problems weren’t on the card provisioning end (my end) they were on someone else’s hands which kept me in the clear.

It is very frustrating having to work late on one of the two nights a week you get to see you beau though.

Wednesday 16th

More work and being bored at home that night. Not much happened Wednesday really….

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So yesterday I got a call from Scottie asking if I can provide a working wireless card, after talking to Rob no I couldn’t because nothing is working down at the switch yet. She has decided to go ahead and drive down to Verona MS where we are launching and wait for the equipment for me to overnight it. So far I have been sitting at work since 8:00 am without leaving and still nothing works. Gotta love it. And I’m starting to get yelled at when I didn’t break anything!! Just frustrating. The thing that is bothering me most is that I have a feeling that we are going to be here a while tonight and it’s actually Gary’s night off and I really wanted a shag and if things keep going this way I’ll be lucky if I get home before dark.

It is now 5pm. We are still on the conference call. They are saying it is all on the air card that is the issue. What is a Kristin to do? A package came in for me today with the Merlin PC720 - the first air card we ever received and provisioned - it is also the only one of the scrubbed lot that did what it was told. This air card’s settings cannot be changed without a magic key that is sitting in my desk at work. Hence how I know it has all the right settings from back in the day and it isn’t on my end. And the new old guy is just sitting here confused saying it isn’t in the AAA… which is where it has to be… and nothing is working. It’s so fucking frustrating I wish no one would have fucked with it.

I changed the layout again. I was looking and even though I backdated all of my poetry posts I really don’t want them as posts and I want them as pages in wordpress. So… New theme. Not sure if I like it as much… haven’t decided yet. But I do like the layout of the Pages a hell of a lot better than in the other one. If only I was good enough at CSS to combine the two…. I might start studying and build that now that I think about it. But even with the green I think it kinda fits me.

God there was so much I was going to write about today and I’m just so friggin furious with everything that is happening today. I just wish that everything would sort itself out. Why did someone have to come and carpet change all the settings!!! Just grrrrrr! And I’m getting yelled at about it since I have people asking “Can we leave with a card yet” “What about Integration?”

I really hope Gary’s migraine goes away I need to make sure someone has a good day out of this because I am almost in tears. Just OMG I want to go home.